RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Visual evoked potentials in neurosyphilis.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 23
OP 27
DO 10.1136/jnnp.46.1.23
VO 46
IS 1
A1 Conrad, B
A1 Benecke, R
A1 Müsers, H
A1 Prange, H
A1 Behrens-Baumann, W
YR 1983
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/46/1/23.abstract
AB The visual evoked potential (VEP) to pattern reversal was recorded in 79 patients with neurosyphilis. Sixteen patients (20%) had abnormal VEP latencies with a predominance of pathological VEP values in the group of tabes dorsalis (50%) as compared to general paresis (18%) or meningovascular forms (13%). A comparison of the frequency of abnormal VEPs with that of other ophthalmological tests (visual acuity, visual field, central campimetry, pupillary reactions, dark adaptation, optic fundus) yielded no diagnostic superiority of VEP.